Ivan Huml

Who is Ivan Huml?

Ivan Huml is a Czech professional ice hockey player who currently plays for Oulun Kärpät in the SM-Liiga. Huml was drafted 59th overall by the Boston Bruins in the 2000 NHL Entry Draft and went on to play 49 regular season games for the Bruins, scoring 6 goals and 12 assists for 18 points and collecting 36 penalty minutes over 3 seasons. He spent much of his tenure with their American Hockey League affiliate the Providence Bruins. In 2004, Huml went home, playing in the Czech Extraliga with HC Rabat Kladno his hometown team. He then moved to Finland's SM-liiga with TPS before playing with Mora IK in Sweden's Elitserien until 2008 when he moved to back to his home country for the 2008-2009 season to play for the Mountfield České Budějovice. In the middle of the 2009-2010 season Mountfield rented him to the HC Kometa Brno. He was fully transferred to HC Kometa Brno for the season 2010-2011, until in the January 2011 the team rented him to the SM-Liiga team Oulun Kärpät for the rest of the season. He quickly rose to be the team's first center and made a deal with Kärpät for the season 2011-2012. Huml made a 2 year deal with Kärpät in January 2012.